Firebase SDK crashes every iOS app, and Google's status page stays silent
Firebase SDK is CRASHING ALLLL iOS Apps, since today morning
A server-side change to Firebase's iOS SDK caused 100% of app sessions to crash for hours, with developers reporting over 110,000 crashes and flooding GitHub. The Firebase team remained unaware for roughly 100 messages, and the status page showed no incident even five hours in. The change was finally rolled back after a 2–6 hour global outage, but with no communication or postmortem promise.
Can you believe this: mobile devs sitting around seeing 100% of their app sessions crashing, unable to do anything, knowing the Firebase SDK/team screwed up, but that team itself doesn’t even know!!
- hzwanip
At least Google engineers can invert a binary tree
- pranshuchittora
Resolved - https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk/issues/16728#is...
- ChrisMarshallNY
Ugh.
That's the dark side of these types of dependencies.
But they provide a great deal of utility, so I can understand the attraction.
- hnisjafx40
Yeah, and pinning versions doesn't save you when the config comes from their server.
- alex_suzuki
I remember first learning about Firebase when working on Android push notifications, a loooooong time ago (~2011 i think). Over time it grew into this full-featured app development platform, after an aquisition (don’t remember the name).
These days however it feels a bit neglected, and somehow poorly bolted on to GCP. I still have a few production apps running on it and news like this reinforces my belief that it’s in decline.
What are folks using these days that (ideally) is open source and self-hostable? I don’t want to lock in with another platform. Some of these apps use the offline sync feature of Firestore (apps used in basements and other low-connectivity areas).